Increased plasma concentrations of adrenomedullin correlate with relaxation of vascular tone in patients with septic shock

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 953-957

  Nishio, Kenji ^a   Akai, Yasuhiro ^a   Murao, Yoshinori ^a   Doi, Naofumi ^a   Ueda, Shiro ^a   Tabuse, Hisayuki ^a   Miyamoto, Seiji ^a   Dohi, Kazuhiro ^a   Minamino, Naoto ^b   Shoji, Hiroki ^b   Kitamura, Kazuo ^c   Kangawa, Kenji ^b   Matsuo, Hisayuki ^b  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenomedullin; Sepsis; Septic shock; Systemic vascular resistance index

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

ADRENOMEDULLIN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VASODILATION;

EID: 0030965779     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199706000-00010     Document Type: Review

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